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commit d3c2fff7cb531745e1345e89cb7f5acf2a8a0f71
parent b89ee1f7215ff8df918e0204e9ec51c8c91362b2
Author: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date:   Tue,  1 Feb 2022 15:24:45 +0100

try to address Martin's comments

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draft-schanzen-gns.xml
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1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/draft-schanzen-gns.xml b/draft-schanzen-gns.xml
@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@
        </dd>
        <dt>Top-Level Domain</dt>
        <dd>
-	 The rightmost label in a GNS name is a GNS Top-Level Domain (TLD).
+	 The rightmost part of a GNS name is a GNS Top-Level Domain (TLD).
+         A GNS TLD may consist of one or more labels.
 	 Unlike DNS Top-Level Domains (defined in <xref target="RFC8499"/>),
 	 GNS does not expect all users to use the same global root zone. Instead,
          with the exception of Zone Top-Level Domains (see below),
@@ -235,12 +236,12 @@
        </dd>
        <dt>Zone Top-Level Domain</dt>
        <dd>
-         A GNS Zone Top-Level Domain (zTLD) is a GNS label used as the
-	 rightmost label in a GNS name which encodes a zone type and
+         A GNS Zone Top-Level Domain (zTLD) is a sequence of GNS labels at
+         the end of a GNS name which encodes a zone type and
          zone key of a zone.
          Due to the statistical uniqueness of zone keys, zTLDs are also globally unique.
-	 A zTLD label can only be distinguished from ordinary TLD labels
-	 by attempting to decode the label to a zone type and zone key.
+	 A zTLD label sequence can only be distinguished from ordinary TLD label sequences
+	 by attempting to decode the labels into a zone type and zone key.
        </dd>
        <dt>Resource Record</dt>
        <dd>
@@ -484,7 +485,8 @@ ztype|zkey := GNSCrockfordDecode(zkl)
          Here, the most significant bytes of the "ztype|zkey" concatenation must be contained
          in the rightmost label of the resulting string and the least significant
          bytes in the leftmost label of the resulting string. This allows the
-         resolver to determine the zone type and zkl length from the rightmost label.
+         resolver to determine the ztype and zkl length from the rightmost label and
+         to subsequently determine how many labels the zTLD should span.
          For example, assuming a zkl of 130 characters, the encoding would be:
        </t>
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